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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Reality Winner NSA Leaker To Intercept

Reality Winner -- Sympathized with Terrorists, Wanted to 'Burn the ... National Review (conservative) Winner sympathized with Osama bin Laden and Taliban and wanted to burn down the White House, and mishandled classified ... Federal agents found her diary during a search of her home in which she allegedly expressed support for Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden. The U.S. magistrate judge who presided over Winner's bail hearing said, "She seems to have a fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism," and quoted her writing: "It's a Christlike vision to have a fundamentalist Islamic state." However, one of the prosecutors said, "The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer."

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Reality Leigh Winner was born in December 1991 in Texas.[4] She grew up in Kingsville, Texas, attending H. M. King High School where she excelled in athletics and tennis. She is vegan, a yoga and fitness enthusiast, passionate about the environment, and interested in spirituality. She adopted abandoned pets and sent gifts to children in Afghanistan.[5]

Winner has posted numerous anti-Trump views on both her Facebook and Twitter accounts.[11][12] Before the 2016 presidential election she posted: "On a positive note, this Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport."[13] She also wrote on her Facebook page that President Donald Trump is a "a soulless ginger orangutan".[14] In her Twitter tweets she has said "the most dangerous entry to this country was the orange fascist we let into the White House”.[11][12][15] On her Facebook page, she also voiced support for the candidate Bernie Sanders and environmental issues.[14][16]

Federal agents found her diary during a search of her home in which she allegedly expressed support for Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden. The U.S. magistrate judge who presided over Winner's bail hearing said, "She seems to have a fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism," and quoted her writing: "It's a Christlike vision to have a fundamentalist Islamic state."[17] One of the prosecutors said, "The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer."[18]

Winner was arrested on June 3, 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice announced news of her arrest on June 5, shortly after The Intercept published an article describing Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, based on classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents leaked to them anonymously.[23][24]

Based on the arrest warrant issued for Winner, the NSA realized the documents had been printed out because the copies sent by The Interceptshowed that the documents "appeared to be folded and/or creased, suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space". The FBI was then able to identify the printer steganography tracking dots to determine when the document was printed, narrowing down the search to six suspects, including Winner.[25]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the public to support Winner,[13] offering a $10,000 reward for information about a reporter for The Intercept who had allegedly disclosed helped the U.S. government identify Winner as the leaker.[26] Assange wrote on Twitter that "Winner is no Clapper or Petraeus with 'elite immunity'. She's a young woman against the wall for talking to the press."[27]

On June 8, 2017, Winner pleaded not guilty to "willful retention and transmission of national defense information", and was denied bail. Prosecutors alleged she may have been involved in other leaks of classified information, and that she might try to flee the country if released.[17][28]

What we know about Reality Winner - CNNPolitics.com - CNN.comwww.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/reality-winner-who-is-accused.../index.html (CNN)Before she was accused of mailing classified information to a media outlet, Reality Winner was a Texas-raised linguist, yoga instructor and animal lover who regularly took to social media to blast President Donald Trump. ... The Justice Department announced charges Monday against ...

Who Is Reality Winner? - The Atlantichttps://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/who-is-reality-winner/529266/ Reality Winner, the 25-year-old Air Force veteran charged with mailing classified information to a news organization, believed to be the ...

The monumental idiocy of leaker Reality Leigh Winnerwww.washingtonexaminer.com/the-monumental-idiocy...reality...winner/.../2625499Reality Winner, 25, whose top-secret clearance gave her access to the now-leaked NSA information, has been coaching family members via ...

Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian ...
www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/federal-contractor-leak-prosecution/index.html
1 hour ago - Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian hacking ..... Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation in ... A US official confirmed to CNN that The Intercept's document is a ...

Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document ...
www.nbcnews.com/.../feds-arrest-nsa-contractor-leak-top-secret-russia-document-n76...
7 hours ago - Barely an hour after a news organization published an article about a Top Secret National Security Agency document on Russian hacking, the Justice Department announced charges against a 25-year-old government contractor who a senior federal official says was the leaker of the ...

Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html
10 hours ago - Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to ... The documentleaked by the Intercept was from a printer with model ...

Someone's already been arrested for allegedly leaking an NSA report ...
mashable.com/2017/06/05/nsa-leaks-intercept-russia-election-2016/
13 hours ago - The story of a leaked NSA report detailing Russia's alleged attempts to infiltrate US ...Reality Leigh Winner, 25, has been arrested and is in custody, with officials ... her as the source of the documents leaked to The Intercept.